• District Court, N.D. Alabama

  Judge

  1909 – 1909Appointed by William Howard Taft

• District Court, N.D. Alabama

  Judge

  1908 – 1909 · 1 yrAppointed by Theodore Roosevelt

• District Court, N.D. Alabama

  Judge

  1907 – 1908 · 1 yrAppointed by Theodore Roosevelt

Career

• President and general counsel, Sun Life Insurance Company

  1913 – present · 113 yrs

• Assistant U.S. attorney

  Northern District of Alabama

  1906 – 1907 · 1 yr

• State senator

  Alabama

  1890 – 1898 · 8 yrs

• City attorney

  1886 – 1890 · 4 yrs

• State representative

  Alabama

  1886 – 1890 · 4 yrs

• Division counsel, Nashville

  Chattanooga, and St. Louis Railway

  1884 – 1907 · 23 yrs

• Private practice

  1878 – 1907 · 29 yrs

Education